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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
The only early FM sets that were halfway decent were the eight tube Zenith sets. The sets that used a 6BE6/12BE6 as a convertor weren't as hot.
How about the FM sets that used the Fremodyne, Superregenerative FM tuner? They were kind of a joke.  |
IMHO, "halfway decent" was about as good as the early tubed table models* got. Sets using field effect RF transistors in the late 60s, or so, started the path toward decent performance.
jr
*however, some tubed component tuners such as the Marantz 10B were quite good performers.